Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of physics.

The attempt to unite all natural phenomena within a single system has been a human preoccupation since time immemorial. For Heinrich Päs it is a question of theoretical physics—trying to explain how ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Physicists have built a quantum gas that behaves nothing like the substances we are used to, and that is exactly why it is ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...